“The Tree Alfred Kreymborg - 1883-1966 I am four monkeys. One hangs from a limb, tail-wise, chattering at the earth; another is cramming his belly with cocoanut; the third is up in the top branches, quizzing the sky, and the fourth— he's chasing another monkey. How many monkeys are you?”
Quotes by Alfred Kreymborg
“Old Manuscript - 1883-1966 The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. To read it all, one must be a linguist more learned than Father Wisdom; and a visionary more clairvoyant than Mother Dream. But to feel it, one must be an apostle: one who is more than intimate in having been, always, the only confidant – like the earth or the sea.”
Alfred KreymborgAlfred Kreymborg was an influential American poet, novelist, playwright, and literary editor whose work spanned several genres and forms. Born in 1883, he became a prominent figure in the early 20th-c...